World money supply monitor — 159 economies, observation date on every number. https://m2index.com en-us https://m2index.com/80-percent-of-all-dollars-printed-fact-check/ https://m2index.com/80-percent-of-all-dollars-printed-fact-check/ The 2020 M1 redefinition added $11.2T overnight — not new money. Real broad money (M2) grew 36.9% in 2019-2021. Here's the arithmetic, sourced. https://m2index.com/about/ https://m2index.com/about/ Behind M2 Index: a small data team (not a named economist), a public email, and every error logged in public on the corrections page. https://m2index.com/hyperinflation/argentina-1989/ https://m2index.com/hyperinflation/argentina-1989/ Argentina's money supply grew 514.60x from Dec 2010 to Jan 2026 — a 62.8% 10-year CAGR and 40.2% YoY, the fastest of any series running back to 1960. https://m2index.com/hyperinflation/brazil-1990/ https://m2index.com/hyperinflation/brazil-1990/ Brazil's money supply grew 44.3% in 1995, decelerating to 12.0% by 1998 — then reversed to 18.1% in 1999 and 19.7% in 2000. Our 1960-2026 series charts both halves. https://m2index.com/compare/brazil-vs-argentina-money-supply/ https://m2index.com/compare/brazil-vs-argentina-money-supply/ Both series run from 1960 — see the 1991 and 1994 stabilizations that split two neighbours apart, plus both dates and why this is not a wealth ranking. https://m2index.com/corrections/ https://m2index.com/corrections/ Every M2 Index error gets a dated, public entry here — from a growth rate measured across a redenomination to a mislabeled US series — and none get edited away quietly. https://m2index.com/currency-debasement/ https://m2index.com/currency-debasement/ The US dollar's own debasement rate: 6.6%/yr (2025-12), doubling every 10.9 years. Argentina, Türkiye, DR Congo and Ghana rank faster — dated, per country. https://m2index.com/data/ https://m2index.com/data/ One free CSV, no email gate. World Bank rows ship CC BY 4.0 as our compilation; IMF/ECB rows ship our own yoy/cagr10/doubling/USD columns, not the raw series. https://m2index.com/global-money-supply/ https://m2index.com/global-money-supply/ MacroMicro/StreetStats sum 4 central banks: $102.66T-$103.28T (checked 2026-08). We sum 159 economies: $144.41T, newest row 2026-06. Different country sets. https://m2index.com/glossary/ https://m2index.com/glossary/ M2 in the US, M3 in the euro area, M4 in the UK — same broad money, different letters. We define all twelve terms, linked to the $144.41T dataset (2026-06). https://m2index.com/hyperinflation/how-hyperinflation-ends/ https://m2index.com/hyperinflation/how-hyperinflation-ends/ Zimbabwe and Argentina relapsed into fast money-supply growth after ending hyperinflation — Brazil and Peru stayed low, per our own 1960-2026 data. https://m2index.com/how-much-money-has-been-printed/ https://m2index.com/how-much-money-has-been-printed/ US broad money added $30.36T since 1960 ($326B to $30.68T, 2025-12). 2020 was the biggest single year: +$3.89T. World total: $144.41T, 159 economies. https://m2index.com/how-much-money-is-in-the-world/ https://m2index.com/how-much-money-is-in-the-world/ World broad money (M2/M3), summed across 159 economies we track: $144.41 trillion, 2008-2026 observation range. 26 economies excluded. https://m2index.com/hyperinflation/hungary-1946/ https://m2index.com/hyperinflation/hungary-1946/ Not Zimbabwe. Hanke & Krus rank Hungary's pengő the worst hyperinflation ever recorded — 4x10^29 to the forint, sourced and narrative-only, since our data starts in 1982. https://m2index.com/hyperinflation/ https://m2index.com/hyperinflation/ Hyperinflation means prices rising 50% a month (Cagan, 1956), not just fast money growth. See which 3 of 10 episodes we chart end-to-end, and how each one ended. https://m2index.com/least-money-printing-countries/ https://m2index.com/least-money-printing-countries/ Ranked by 10-year CAGR and doubling time: Dominica (1.07%/yr) to Kuwait and Japan, as of 2026-04. A slow rate signals a peg, not restraint. https://m2index.com/hyperinflation/lebanon-2020/ https://m2index.com/hyperinflation/lebanon-2020/ Lebanon's pound lost roughly 98% of its value after its 1,507.5-peg broke in 2019 — and it's the one hyperinflation episode we can't chart at all. https://m2index.com/m2-money-supply-vs-bitcoin/ https://m2index.com/m2-money-supply-vs-bitcoin/ We hold no Bitcoin price series — every correlation claim here is dated and cited. Our own M2 figures are $30.68T US (2025-12) and $144.41T world (2026-06). https://m2index.com/m2-money-supply-vs-gold/ https://m2index.com/m2-money-supply-vs-gold/ We hold no gold price series — every ratio figure here is cited and dated. Our own M2 side is $30.68T US (2025-12) and $144.41T world (2026-06). https://m2index.com/methodology/ https://m2index.com/methodology/ M2 Index converts 161 economies to USD at IMF/World Bank period-average rates, ships every derived metric free with no email gate, and names each known gap. https://m2index.com/money-printer-go-brrr/ https://m2index.com/money-printer-go-brrr/ U.S. M2 is $30.68T (2025-12), up 6.0% a year — real, but not printed. Where the "money printer go brrr" meme is right, where it's wrong, and what it missed in 2022-23. https://m2index.com/money-printer-ranking/ https://m2index.com/money-printer-ranking/ Ranked by growth rate: Zimbabwe leads at 338.2%/yr over 47 months (2026-04), South Sudan at 69.6%/yr over ten years (2026-06). Includes the US, Canada and UAE figures the viral infographic never showed. https://m2index.com/money-supply-and-inflation/ https://m2index.com/money-supply-and-inflation/ Every economy above ~30%/yr for years also ran extreme inflation (Argentina, Zimbabwe, Türkiye) — documented separately. We hold no CPI data below that pace. https://m2index.com/money-supply-by-country/ https://m2index.com/money-supply-by-country/ China leads our money supply by country ranking at $42.64T (2024), the US second at $30.68T (2025-12) — dates span 2008-05 to 2026-06. https://m2index.com/money-supply-growth-ranking/ https://m2index.com/money-supply-growth-ranking/ Ranked by growth rate and doubling time, from Zimbabwe (338.2%/yr over 47 months) and South Sudan (69.6%/yr over ten years) to Dominica (1.07%/yr) — as of 2026-06, no FX conversion needed. https://m2index.com/hyperinflation/peru-1990/ https://m2index.com/hyperinflation/peru-1990/ Peru's money supply grew 6,384.9% in 1990, then decelerated to 37.2% by 1994. Our series ends 2023-06 — stale, and we say so. https://m2index.com/quantity-theory-of-money/ https://m2index.com/quantity-theory-of-money/ We hold money-growth data for 157 economies, not velocity, price or output. See what MV=PQ can test — the one US case where it partly held, 24 months late. https://m2index.com/compare/turkey-vs-argentina-money-supply/ https://m2index.com/compare/turkey-vs-argentina-money-supply/ Both series start in 1960. See why neither counts as hyperinflation by Cagan's threshold, and why this is not a wealth ranking. https://m2index.com/us-money-supply/ https://m2index.com/us-money-supply/ US broad money grew 6.0% in the year to December 2025, 6.6%/yr over the past decade — good for just 115th of 159 economies by growth rate. https://m2index.com/compare/us-vs-china-money-supply/ https://m2index.com/compare/us-vs-china-money-supply/ See both official figures with their real dates, the per-capita reversal ($90.2K US vs $30.3K China), and the wealth-ranking rebuttal on one page. https://m2index.com/velocity-of-money/ https://m2index.com/velocity-of-money/ US M2 velocity is 1.412 (Q2 2026, FRED M2V), down from roughly 2.2 in the 1990s. We explain why it fell twice — after 2008 and again after 2020. https://m2index.com/hyperinflation/venezuela-2016/ https://m2index.com/hyperinflation/venezuela-2016/ The IMF projected 1,000,000% inflation by 2018; Venezuela's central bank later confirmed 130,060%. We hold neither — our own series ends 2014-08, at the run-up nobody else charts. https://m2index.com/hyperinflation/weimar-1923/ https://m2index.com/hyperinflation/weimar-1923/ Our money-supply data starts in 1960 — Weimar predates it entirely. The Rentenmark fix a top Reddit thread never got answered, sourced to Cagan and Hanke & Krus. https://m2index.com/hyperinflation/yugoslavia-1994/ https://m2index.com/hyperinflation/yugoslavia-1994/ 313,000,000% a month, per Petrović, Bogetić & Vujošević (1999) — a ranking made before Zimbabwe's 2008 episode. Narrative-only; our Serbia series starts 1997, after this ended. https://m2index.com/hyperinflation/zimbabwe-2008/ https://m2index.com/hyperinflation/zimbabwe-2008/ Zimbabwe's broad money supply hit $4.76B in April 2026, up 45.6% in a year and 338.2%/yr since the 2022 series break — the aftermath series no one else charts.